I was chatting with a buddy of mine yesterday who recently has started a new job. His new company has built a new team to start a 'green field' project and they are currently in the 'debate' stage of planning. The team is currently trying...

Today Dell announced its plans to go Carbon Neutral (wiki info here ). Personally i think this is pretty cool.... However, I am a little skeptical if they (or anyone else) will really follow through. You can read the article here . Till next time,

Today I came across a nice post on 'Bug Driven Development' . This is something that most developers have experienced at one point in their career. I know I have. Kudos to Phil for coming up with this great name (if did not coin this term, then...

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may...

I have been using 2 monitors in some shape or form for the past 3+ years. In the early days it was a CRT attached to my laptop, then I moved to an LCD attached to the laptop. Finally, when I worked on desktops I used 2 LCD's. With this said, I am...

In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a...

Orin (Ayende @ Rahien) has a post about not using your email account for testing (found here ). I would go a step further and say don’t use your development teams group address. Recently I was developing a heath check windows service that was designed...

Just in case anyone is interested, M.S. announced the MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) 2008 conference. You can find more (not much more though) information here . The event will feature keynote addresses by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation;...

This is in response to a post by my good buddy joeyDotNet (found here ). Joey has an obvious but insightful post about how a software craftsman should bring their own tools with them to make them more productive. In his post he specially talks about carrying...

I am not sure what has gotten into Scott, but it appears as if he is doing a brain dump over at CodeBetter.com. I just noticed that over the weekend he pump out a ton of insightful postings. You can find all of Scotts postings at his CodeBetter site here...

Today Apple announced a new version of their iPod, the 'touch'. It appears to be the iPhone minus the phone part. It looks pretty cool. You can get some information about the touch from Apple's site here . I just happen to be in the market...

This is pretty cool. Verio is giving away free web hosting for the next 2+ years. This is an 'educational' only site (not 100% sure what this means), but it is free. For more information check out this site . I created my account today, it was...

So today I finally took the first test on the path to getting my MCTS Cert. This was the 70-536 test which is the first test in their new series for .net developers. Yea, I passed the first one, that SUCKED. I, along with the others on my team have been...